Requirements and Curriculum

The MPH in epidemiology requires 49 credits. Students who began before Fall 2018 may complete 47 credits.

A minimum of 33 must be from UB.

Up to 9 credits may be transferred from previous coursework and up to 6 credits may be waived. A minimum of 43 credits must be completed, regardless of any waivers or substitutions.

The program can be completed in four semesters of full-time attendance or up to eight semesters of part-time attendance.

You will be assigned a faculty advisor who will assist you in planning your academic coursework and other program requirements. Learn more about advisement.

The following courses are required for students beginning Fall 2018. Students who began before Fall 2018, please see the prior curriculum.

• CHB 501 Study of Health Behavior (fall, 3 cr.)
• EEH 501 Principles of Epidemiology (fall, 4 cr., Must be completed in the first semester)
• EEH 530 Introduction to Health Care Organization (fall, 3 cr.)
• EEH 550 Environmental Health (spring, 3 cr.)
• EEH 590 Contemporary Issues in Public Health (1 cr., students take 3 semesters, and should register for at least 1 fall and 1 spring semester)

Must be completed in the first semester

• EEH 505 Application to Biostatistics to Epidemiology I (fall, 1 cr.)
• STA 527 (LEC) Introduction to Biostatistics I (fall, 3 cr.)

• EEH 520 Biological Basis of Public Health (spring, 3 cr.)

Students with college-level coursework in human biology, or anatomy and physiology may be approved to waive this course and take an additional elective. 

• EEH 502 Advanced Methodology (3 cr.)
• EEH 506 Application to Biostatistics to Epidemiology II (4 cr.)
• EEH 573 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (3 cr.)

Select three courses from the list below.

• EEH 510 Principles of Measurement in Public Health
• EEH 521 Global Health
• EEH 544 MPH Field Training
  Additional 3 credits beyond the required 3 credits listed below
• EEH 570 Cancer Epidemiology
• EEH 571 Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease
• EEH 572 Nutritional Epidemiology
• EEH 574 Epidemics and Outbreaks
• EEH 575 Epidemiologic Applications to Environmental Health
• EEH 577 Perinatal Epidemiology

Students can petition to take courses outside their concentration area or at the PhD level if the course is relevant to their future career plans and they obtain permission of the course instructor and the director of graduate studies.

Apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom and engage in the practice of public health through a placement at a site of your choosing. Register for your department's version of this course.

• EEH 544 MPH Field Training (4 cr.)
  

Incorporate what you learned from the program coursework and your field training experience into a paper and presentation that addresses a specific public health issue. Register for your department's version of this course.

• EEH 630 MPH Integrative Project (3 cr.)